[ “If you look at today’s dollars and you go back to the 1980s, we averaged about $1 billion disaster a year. In the 2000s, we’ve averaged almost five, and in the last two years, we’ve averaged $7.5 billion disasters per year. So, we’ve seem more extremes, and we’re … going to continue to see more extremes,” Cantore said. ]
He forgot to add in the inflation and graft that the government agencies add into the cost of each disaster and the amount of money that is added by people not rebuilding and not reporting like people used to in the old days. Also the insurance fraud.
What a frickin looney toon.
You’re right. He also forgot to mention that FEMA has escalated what they’re willing to replace today.
We didn’t have government mobile homes rolled out in earlier times. We didn’t have fields full of mobile homes left over years after the event either.
We blow more money, because of mismanagement and idiotic responses that aren’t really reasoned or called for.